At the conclusion of the NHL Draft on the weekend, Senators assistant GM Pierre Dorion took the time to speak with Ian Mendes and Lee Versage about the team’s activity at the Draft. Not surprisingly, Dorion was pretty jacked up – exhibiting the excitement an Hfboards prospect-porn indulging poster. I don’t blame him considering how […]

Alright, over the past 48 hours, there’s been a bunch of Senators related nuggets going on, so I’m going to knockout a series of articles starting with this weekend’s media availabilities. So without further ado, here’s a transcript of the interview that Bryan Murray conducted with TSN 1200 at the conclusion of the NHL Draft’s […]

In some breaking news this morning, the Senators have announced that they have signed Chris Wideman to a one-year, two-way contract that will pay him an NHL salary of $600,000 if he plays in Ottawa and an AHL salary of $400,000 if he can’t stick at the parent level. If you’re Wideman, it’s a […]

With no third round pick thanks to the team’s ill-fated decision to acquire Ales Hemsky at the 2014 trade deadline, the Senators wound up acquiring Travis Ewanyk and the 107th pick in the fourth round of the 2015 NHL Draft from the Edmonton Oilers for defenceman Eric Gryba. With Erik Karlsson and Cody Ceci being the only […]

With the second round of the NHL draft already underway, the Senators made another splash by trading up to acquire the New Jersey Devils’ 36th overall selection. The Senators traded their 41st overall selection and a conditional pick to move up to select Gabriel Gagne, a left winger from the Victoriaville Tigres. The conditional draft pick […]

Full disclosure: I watch junior eligible players play about as often as I watch Stephane Da Costa KHL highlight montages on YouTube. It rarely happens, so I’m not going to pretend to have some kind of informed opinion on who the Senators selected or complain about the prospects who were passed over. That being said, […]

Today the Senators finally released the Lehner. Per TSN‘s Bob McKenzie, the Ottawa Senators have traded Robin Lehner and David Legwand to the Buffalo Sabres for the 21st overall selection in the 2015 NHL Draft. (Note: the Sabres acquired this pick from the New York Islanders in their 2014 Thomas Vanek deal.) You have to hand […]

Somewhere in Vegas, Craig Oster is sitting Mika Zibanejad and Mark Stone down in a room and delivering a lesson on how you don’t sign contracts at 4:00 am in the morning when you’ve spent the majority of the night sitting at the baccarat table drinking Mai Tais with Bryan Murray. What happens in Vegas […]

Bryan Murray met with reporters after the GM’s meeting in Las Vegas, ahead of tonight’s NHL Awards show — where Mark Stone and Erik Karlsson will capture the Calder Trophy and Norris Trophy respectively — and touched upon a number of transaction-related nuggets of information that I’ll pass along now. The full six-minute interview was published […]

This will be a quick one. I missed his interview segment yesterday on TSN 1200‘s ‘The Drive’, but thanks to their archived podcasts, I gave their interview with Darren Dreger a listen. I’m glad I did because some of the information that he shared on the Senators’ goaltending trade discussions is completely different than […]

A few short moments ago, the NHLPA announced the payroll range for the upcoming 2015-16. From their official press release: NEW YORK/TORONTO (June 23, 2015) – The National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players’ Association today announced that the Team Payroll Range established for the 2015-16 League Year, pursuant to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, […]

Whenever TSN‘s Bob McKenzie tweets — the Twitter-verified McKenzie and not one of those fake McKenzie accounts run by some assholes who crave short-lived laughs at the expense of some suckers on the internet — about NHL hockey rumours, it’s bound to garner some attention. But after Sportsnet‘s Elliotte Friedman published his latest ’30 Thoughts’ column that delved […]

Yesterday was a busy day for media availabilities as Bryan Murray and Senators assistant general manager Pierre Dorion spoke with the masses for the last time before the NHL Draft that begins on June 26th. I have already posted the first two Murray availabilities earlier today (here and here), so without further ado, here’s a […]

After concluding his morning availability with the rest of the media, Senators general manager jumped in with TSN 1200’s for a one-on-one interview that was featured on ‘The Drive’ yesterday afternoon. I highly recommend listening to the interview. Not so much for Bryan Murray’s comments, but to listen to Ian Mendes do his best Jim […]